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Reading Ovid: Stories from the Metamorphoses by Peter Jones 9780521613323
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Presents a selection of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the most famous and influential collection of Greek and Roman myths in the world. It includes well-known stories like those of Daedalus and... -
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare by Lynn Enterline 9780521624503
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.02This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn... -
Ovid on Screen: A Montage of Attractions Martin M. Winkler 9781108706957
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.57This book presents the first systematic appreciation of Ovid's extensive influence on, and affinity with, modern visual culture. Some topics are directly related to Ovid; others exhibit features,... -
The Metamorphoses (Translated and Annotated by Henry T. Riley) by Ovid 9781420954548
Booksplease Price: £16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420954548Author OvidFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint -
Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays by Paul Murgatroyd
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.40This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid's Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on... -
Shakespeare`s Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval by Lindsay Ann Reid
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet. The debt owed by Shakespeare to Ovid is a major and important topic in scholarship. This book... -
The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante's 'Commedia' by Rachel Jacoff
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.69A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804718608Author Rachel JacoffFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Silenced Voices: The Poetics of Speech in Ovid by Bartolo A. Natoli 9780299312145
Booksplease Price: £24.14Silenced Voices is a pointed examination of the loss of speech, exile from community, and memory throughout the literary corpus of the Roman poet Ovid. In his book-length poem Metamorphoses,... -
Tales From The Bat Cave by Ovid J. McLaughlin 9781420822007
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £10.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420822007Author Ovid J. McLaughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprin -
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England by Heather James 9781108720717
Booksplease Price: £23.27The range of poetic invention that occurred in Renaissance English literature was vast, from the lyric eroticism of the late sixteenth century to the rise of libertinism in the late seventeenth... -
Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems by A. B. Taylor 9780521030311
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Ovid's great poem, Metamorphoses, was a source of life long fascination and inspiration for Shakespeare. He drew on its great myths throughout his career: in early works like Venus and Adonis and... -
A New Tongue / Late Style Ovid by Richard Blevins 9781963908510
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781963908510Author Richard BlevinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint -
Ovid Fasti: Books I-III by Anna Everett Beek
Booksplease Price: £109.14Ovid's Fasti is a journey through ancient Rome, using the calendar as a guide. The reader of this poem tours the monuments of the Augustan-era city, witnesses both urban and rustic seasonal... -
Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A New Translation by C. Luke Soucy 9780520394858
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.53This fresh translation revives the politics and power at play in classical mythology's foremost source Centuries of conservative translators have robbed the Metamorphoses of its subversive force. In... -
Ovid's Homer: Authority, Repetition, Reception by Barbara Boyd 9780190680046
Booksplease Price: £110.12Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and... -
Ovid's "Heroides" and the Augustan Principate by Megan O. Drinkwater 9780299337841
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.6843 BCE, the year after the assassination of Julius Caesar. While the Roman republic had seen many conflicts, it was this civil war, headed by the vengeful triumvirate of Mark Anthony, Marcus Lepidus,... -
Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theater by Lisa S. Starks
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.31Usesadaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of OvidApplies contemporary theoretical approaches, such as gender/queer/trans studies, feminist... -
Ancient Epic Katherine Callen King (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 9781118255346
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £24.36Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes'... -
Signs & Wonders by Charles Martin 9780801899744
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Signs is a noun (as in DO NOT DISTURB); Wonders (as in "with furrowed brows"), a verb. The couplet that leads into Charles Martin's fifth collection of richly inventive poems suggests that the world... -
Ancient Epic by Katherine Callen King 9781405159470
RRP: £76.95Booksplease Price: £69.41Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes'... -
Tragedy in Ovid: Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre by Dan Curley 9781107009530
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Ovid is today best known for his grand epic, Metamorphoses, and elegiac works like the Ars Amatoria and Heroides. Yet he also wrote a Medea, now unfortunately lost. This play kindled in him a... -
Ovid's Amores, Book One: A Commentary by Maureen B Ryan 9780806141442
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Students of Latin have long enjoyed the poetry of Ovid, but his love poems, aptly titled Amores, have proved more difficult to introduce into the classroom. Curricular changes and increased... -
Ovid Fasti: Books I-III Anna Everett Beek 9781835538418
Booksplease Price: £38.16Ovid's Fasti is a journey through ancient Rome, using the calendar as a guide. The reader of this poem tours the monuments of the Augustan-era city, witnesses both urban and rustic seasonal... -
Statius and Ovid: Poetics, Politics, and Intermediality in the Thebaid by Tommaso Spinelli 9781009282215
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £77.29This is the first in-depth exploration of the extent and significance of Ovidian intertexts in Statius' Thebaid, with particular emphasis on the interplay between poetics, politics, and material... -
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Issues of Unity in Ovid's <i>Tristia" by Helena Dettmer 9781433177422
RRP: £66.75Booksplease Price: £62.39In his 1995 Teubner edition, J. B. Hall separates Tristia 1.5, 1.9, 3.4, 4.4, 5.2, and 5.7 into two poems. One reviewer of Hall's edition is highly critical of the editor for not justifying the... -
Phaethon and Other Stories from Ovid by G. M. Edwards 9781107678934
Booksplease Price: £32.12Originally published in 1957, as part of the Cambridge Elementary Classics series, this book presents the Latin text of the Phaethon myth as recounted by Ovid, together with other stories from the... -
Catullus to Ovid: Reading Latin Love Elegy by Joan Booth 9781853996061
Booksplease Price: £25.91This text offers an introduction, Latin text, translation and literary commentary on seventeen poems by Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid. It is intended for students who are approaching the... -
Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages by Kathryn Starkey 9781403964441
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £26.92This multi-disciplinary collection of essays draws on various theoretical approaches to explore the highly visual nature of the Middle Ages and expose new facets of old texts and artefacts. The term... -
Marlowe's Ovid: The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon M. L. Stapleton 9781032098999
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The first book of its kind, Marlowe's Ovid explores and analyzes in depth the relationship between the Elegies-Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Amores-and Marlowe's own dramatic and poetic works... -
The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer by R. Edwards 9781403964113
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book reformulates the master narrative of erotic discourse in medieval literature. Individual chapters offer fresh readings of the nature and claims of erotic attachments in Abelard and Heloise,... -
The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture by Helena Taylor 9780198796770
Booksplease Price: £109.82Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant 'culture wars' Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time... -
Ovid’s Women of the Year: Narratives of Roman Identity in the Fasti by Angeline Chiu
Booksplease Price: £70.38Roman love-poet Ovid, best known for the epic Metamorphoses, offers in his Fasti the self-proclaimed goal of exploring and explicating the Roman calendar. Published in his maturity circa 14 CE, the... -
Old Man's Gold and Other Short Stories by Ovid Pierce 9780807897515
Booksplease Price: £35.00The four novels of Pierce, published between 1953 and 1974, all won national attention and critical acclaim, and many critics believe that the importance of this writer will continue to grow. This... -
How to Get Over a Breakup: An Ancient Guide to Moving On by Ovid 9780691220307
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23A modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid’s Remedies for Love—a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of loveBreakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a... -
Practice! Practice!: Latin Via Ovid Workbook by Norma Goldman 9780814326114
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.50Exhibiting the same clarity as Latin via Ovid, this student workbook parallels the text's forty lessons and is the ideal supplement to classroom recitation and exercises. Drills in grammar and... -
Babe Ruth Is Missing: An Ovid Kent Novel by Saul Isler 9780998479019
RRP: £13.68Booksplease Price: £13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998479019Author Saul IslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint -
The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-conscious Muse by Stephen Hinds 9780521335065
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.57Ovid, a poet unashamedly in love in poetry, including his own, has enjoyed a recent renaissance in popularity. Yet there is still a certain tendency amongst critics to withhold from his writing the... -
Charter by New York State Agricultural College (Ovid, N.Y.) 9780461329018
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461329018Author New York State Agricultural College (Ovid, N.Y.)Format Pa -
Six Metamorphoses After Ovid Op.49 by Benjamin Britten 9781480342002
Booksplease Price: £16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480342002Author Benjamin BrittenPage Count 12Imprint -
Metamorphoses: City Lights Spotlight No. 22 Evan Kennedy 9780872869004
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.50One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Spring 2023Metamorphoses springs from Ovid's epic poem to explore the slipperiness of identity, its propensity for change and transience...